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Laurie Rice

Laurie Rice is the research and program assistant for The Atlas Society and the editor of David Kelley’s logic textbook, The Art of Reasoning. She holds degrees in English, philosophy, and psychology.

Feminism and the Future

Feminism and the Future

By Laurie Rice

Winter 2010 -- Imagine a rich, new media landscape—one that extols complex heroines whose lives expand a young women's sense of the many ways that it is possible to be; one that de-emphasizes sexuality and appearance as the measures of a woman’s worth. Imagine energized women smartly banding together to solve social problems—using micro-financing to enable other women to launch businesses, for example—instead of leaning dependently on a paternalistic government.

All in Favor Say "I"

All in Favor Say "I"

By Laurie Rice
    capitalism [kap-i-tl-iz-uhm]

    An economic and political system characterized by a free market for goods and services and private control of production and consumption.

    The American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy

    "Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choice of what to seek.”

The Persuasion of Nixon

The Persuasion of Nixon

By Laurie Rice

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In the mid-1960s, a handful of individuals from Ayn Rand’s inner circle set out to end the draft. Few know the story of their activism.